Mexico's exotic Prisons

In Mexican prisons more than prisoners and guards. In recent months the authorities have found in several prisons, from exotic animals, weapons, liqueurs or satellite phones, to pool tables or air conditioning system.

Specialists say that Mexican prisons are a security problem for the country.

The most recent case occurred in the prison of Acapulco in the south, where the inmates were fighting cocks, peacocks, bags of marijuana and lived with 19 women offering sexual services.

Prisons are one of the most serious security problems in the country, say analysts and civil organizations. 

The Public Security Ministry acknowledges that from inside some prisons are organized kidnappings and extortion, and have even been cases where drug cartel leaders are hiding in prisons to evade rival groups.

The independent Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said that prisoners rule 100 of the 429 prisons in the country. "The country's prison system has collapsed, dragging vices for many years," he tells the BBC Ana Laura Magaloni, Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE).

"Prisons are nests of corruption, abuse, arbitrary. Not even serve to implement exemplary punishment," he adds.

Via:bbc